January Recs: Best of 2025!
Sorry for the delay on this one!
Room Owners
Rage
Song:
Deafheaven - Doberman
Genre: Blackgaze, Post-Metal
Description: Deafheaven made their return last year and dropped arguably their best album to date, not an easy task with a discography like theirs
Rage
Song:
Tunic - Sorrow's Grip
Genre: Noise Rock, Pigfuck, Post-Hardcore w/ Sludge Metal influence
Description: Dark, dissonant, anxious, this isn't the kind of thing for everyone
Rage
Song:
Erik Sermon - God Mode feat. Conway the Machine & The Game
Genre: Hardcore Hip Hop, Boom Bap
Description: Erik Sermon resurfaced in December of 2025 and assembled an Avengers lineup of oldhead duos, from Red and Meth, to Snoop and Nate, to Salt N Peppa lmao (also worth a shoutout to the song How Long with Public Enemy on the same album)
Tenshi
Song:
Lexie Liu - Cigarette demo
Genre: pop
Description: RELEASE THE COMPLETE VERSION NOW GIRLIE
Room Mods
bt89
Song:
Gingerbee - Petal Dance
Genre: Chamber Pop / Emo
Description: i was late to this project but this is one of the finest emo songs i’ve heard in a long time. a shame that they’re disbanding after their final concert in march because this sound really is something special; a culmination of fifth wave emo and BCNR into a really glorious, raw song
Room Drivers
celebrating
Song:
By Storm - In My Town
Genre: Experimental Hip-hop, Folktronica
Description: On the 4th single released for their debut album, By Storm takes what Injury Reserve left behind, and expands on the sonic soundscapes immensely. Weaving a disjointed, anxious narrative about financial troubles, this is one of the more texturally interesting releases in hip-hop, ever
ToastNoButter
Song:
TWICE - HEARTBREAK AVENUE
Genre: K-Pop, Sophisti-Pop, Contemporary R&B
Description: TWICE is a group that most of the time makes pretty ok pop music, but I pay attention to them because they always have the potential to make something that just blows me away. Everything about this song is placed just right, the simply wintery beat with its lo-fi feeling guitar and delicate keys and synths, the vocal trading off and the bass in the midsection, oh man the vocals in general. This is for me, this is my song of the year.
ToastNoButter
Song:
Ciśnienie - Gówno
Genre: Post-Rock, Noise Rock
Description: Of the four improv sessions of songs from Ciśnienie’s [angry noises], this would be the one that feels the most intentional in its atmosphere, plodding along through some eerie, nasty swamp of a soundscape, losing yourself in cyclical paths. Every time you feel you might escape, it comes to life and pulls you back in, descending further and further into chaos. Epic.
ToastNoButter
Song:
miffle - remnants of a dream
Genre: Tape Music, Ambient, Electroacoustic
Description: miffle’s album “goodbye, world!” is incredible, and while I would like to recommend the song “long walk home” from it, I want to leave that for people to listen to within the context of the album. Instead, while this isn’t the climax of the album, this is the crystallization of its core identity, where it feels the most clear what the purpose of this album is: memories of a friend, cryogenic preservation of wisps, a final farewell.
Room Voices
April
Song:
Mac Miller - Funny Papers
Genre: Jazz Rap
Description: Polished and remastered from a 2020 bootleg by his estate, the late Mac Miller takes a page out of the Beatles' book and spins a set of intimate, somber stories through the lens of the daily newspaper. Supported by a delicate, almost soaring piano hook, Miller's songwriting shines here as among the best the year had to offer. Soulful, introspective, and hauntingly human: Funny Papers is a gift from beyond the grave.
April
Song:
Weatherday - Blood Online
Genre: Emo / Noise Rock
Description: Punching you with a grunge-y, crunchy riff that feels like being compressed to a smaller file size, Blood Online shares a snippet of an online relationship gone awry. No moment of this song feels wasted: the toxic self-loathing of the narrator, the broken state of their romance, and the metaphor of bleeding out as vulnerability are all injected right into your veins.
April
Song:
Twenty One Pilots - Center Mass
Genre: Alternative Dance / Baggy / Rap Rock
Description: Twenty One Pilots just absolutely go to town on the sampler here, on a track that blends a Northside-esque baggy hook with acid jazzy hip-hop verses and an insanely cathartic post-hardcore breakdown. Simultaneously a head bopper and a tearjerker.
YouTube
DerpySuX
Song:
Yeat - LOCO
Genre: Rap/Trap
Description: The entire Dangerous Summer EP is a contender for best trap project of the year, and LOCO encapsulates the energy of the album perfectly. The beat is insanely catchy and Yeat effortlessly glides over it with flows that switch from compact and smooth to slow and catchy, repeatable lines.
DerpySuX
Song:
$uicideboy$ feat BONES - Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Genre: Rap/Trap/New Orleans Trap
Description: $uicideboy$ team up with New Orleans underground rapper BONES in a gritty and atmospheric trap track with decently intricate wordplay.
DerpySuX
Song:
21 Savage and Jawan Harris - I WISH
Genre: Rap/Trap/Atlanta Trap
Description: The closing song in WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS is a beautiful, introspective ode to all of the young stars taken by the streets.
namda
Song:
Hoshimachi Suisei - Caramel Pain
Genre: J-Pop
Description: I didn't discover this until much later in the year but it is a certified banger by Suisei, and is so catchy, and the particularly the end of each chorus is just UGHHH how did I not listen to Suisei more prior to this her voice is just so pretty and aaaaaaaaa
sheepie_sheep
Song:
Magdalena Bay - Star Eyes
Genre: Progressive Pop / Neo Psychedelia / Art Pop
Description: One of the most powerfully beautiful and unique electronic / pop songs of this decade.
sheepie_sheep
Song:
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Slowcore
Description: Through swirling instrumentation Ethel delivers one of the most uniquely devastating songs I've ever heard
February recs coming next!
bt89 
Aldente Fettucino 
celebrating 
sheepie_sheep 
Maddy 
Lux Prima 
babsus 
